Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.
Right now, it's doing a little damage control, and preempting complaints about privacy, by listing the types of information its operating system will automatically and silently leak from PCs, slabs, and laptops back to Redmond.
When Windows 10 came out, Reg readers were alarmed by the volume of information the software was collecting and sending back to base. Ever since then, Microsoft has been fighting a PR battle to reassure people that such data slurping isn't all bad – it's "just" telemetry and diagnostics and potentially your files.
Now Redmond's had a little rethink for the Creators Update, and decided to come clean on exactly what the software will phone home – even insisting the closed-source operating system will scoop up less surveillance this time.
What makes you think it's your data?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:24AM (1 child)
It's a huge reason to root them. Most people have no idea how fast their hardware can be when not encumbered by vampire processes. A second reason to kill spyware dead is it really helps to get people to leave you the hell alone. Spam decreases, sales calls fade, junk mail stops clogging your mailbox. Lastly it helps to age out of the most desireable demographic, male 18-30yr old; if there are ad-averse millenials out there, do what you can to cast yourself as 60 years old.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 10 2017, @11:15PM
When I think about rooting, it's essentially just a step to replace the whole OS. Because it simple can't be trusted. The radio-modem still remains but there are other ways to thwart that pathway.